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It’s In The Name: Why Alexander The Great Is Considered History’s Greatest General

The name Alexander the Great is considered legendary. It stands for power and a drive that refused to quit. More than two ...
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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra

Egypt goes from glory to disaster in this lively history of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Egyptologist Wilkinson (Ramesses the Great) begins with Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 BCE and ...